Examples of “deliberate indifference,” per the Supreme Court, include all but which one of the following?

. Requiring a prisoner to ride a prison van to the hospital, rather than an ambulance

Today, prisoners must be given all but which of the following due process rights?

ALL OF THE ABOVE
– Advance written notice of charges no less than 24 hours before appearing at the hearing
– Ability to call witnesses and to present documentary evidence in his or her defense
– Use of counsel substitutes (e.g., a friend or staff member) when the inmate is illiterate or when complex issues require such assistance
– An impartial prison disciplinary board

As with the police, there are several benefits to be realized for corrections agencies wishing to become accredited; they include all but which of the following?

Cost savings with respect to staff salaries

Today’s public ideology toward crime has led to _____ sentencing practices.

get-tough

The “just deserts” theory is based on the idea that:

offenders make “free will” decisions to commit crimes.

The state organization that oversees all of the prisons is often termed the:

Central office

Who made the highly publicized finding that, in prison programs, “almost nothing works”?

Martinson

Drug-addicted offenders may receive all but which of the following types of treatment?

Family Counseling

What division of a state’s central office oversees budget development and new prison construction?

Administrative division

The administration of local jails is frequently one of the major tasks of:

County sheriffs

Approximately how many locally administered jails are in the United States?

2,800

Which of the following is not a feature of the direct supervision jail?

All blind spots are removed.

Which of the following is not one of the actions that COs must take in the new direct supervision jails?

Be more highly trained in self-defense

____ is/are seen by many correctional administrators as the major barrier(s) to humane housing of offenders.

Crowding

The Prison Litigation Reform Act was enacted in an attempt to:

decrease frivolous lawsuits brought by inmates.

Which of the following is not one of the four main parts of the Prison Litigation Reform Act?

Emotional abuse requirement

One of the four main parts of the Prison Litigation Reform Act is the filing fee requirement; it mandates

that prisoners pay court filing fees in full, even if monthly installments are necessary

Which of the following cases would be discouraged under the Prison Litigation Reform Act?

An inmate sues because he was served cold soup for lunch

Each frivolous or malicious lawsuit or appeal that an inmate files counts as a ______against the inmate

strike

According to the______ of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, an inmate cannot file a lawsuit for mental or emotional injury unless he or she can also show physical injury.

Physical injury requirement

Which of the following is not one of the six categories of the administration of probation systems?

city

A major social problem that prison administrators felt would deal a devastating blow to their inmate populations, but which never materialized, involved:

AIDS/HIV

Which of the following is not a part of systems theory as applied to probation?

Linear planning

In systems theory, incarceration rates would be classified as:

outcomes

In systems theory, policies and procedures would be classified as:

resources

Which of the following is not a basic service of parole agencies?

Parole release

According to the systems theory for probation, inputs would include:

the probationer coming into the office for counseling.

Which of the following is not one of the four goals that jails should attempt to accomplish in preparing inmates for reentry in society?

Avoid a complex and time-consuming intake and assessment process

After examining the effects of supermax prisons, Pizarro et al. found all but which of the following to be true?

These prisons do not present a danger to society beyond that of regular imprisonment.

The overriding concern in prisons and jails is, and should be, ____.

Security

T/F Correctional organizations have two related management subsystems: one that is concerned with managing inmates, the other with managing employees.

True

T/F The purpose of unit management in prisons is twofold: to decentralize the administration of the prison, and to enhance communication among staff and between staff and inmates.

True

T/F Today there are over one million people in U.S. prisons and jails.

True

T/F The mission of corrections agencies has changed little over time.

True

T/F There are now about 30 supermax prisons in the United States.

True

T/F Supermax inmates rarely leave their cells; in most, an hour a day of out-of-cell time is the norm.

True

T/F Supermax prison inmates are primarily distinguished by their large amount of access to vocational or educational training programs.

False

T/F Given the high degree of isolation and lack of activities, a major concern voiced by critics of supermax facilities is their “social pathology” and potential effect on inmates’ mental health

True

T/F Although there is very little research concerning the effects of supermax confinement, some authors point to isolation research that shows far lower levels of problems in such facilities.

False

T/F Female inmates living in a high-security unit have been found to experience claustrophobia, chronic rage reactions, depression, hallucinatory symptoms, withdrawal, and apathy.

True

T/F Because of their relatively recent origin, the constitutionality of supermax prisons has been tested in only a few cases, which resulted in those prisons being shut down.

False

T/F Historically the courts followed a “hands off” policy regarding prisons and prisoners’ rights, deeming prisoners to be “slaves of the state.”

True

T/F Traditionally, the judiciary wanted to tell wardens how to operate their institutions.

False

T/F The mid-1960s brought a change of philosophy in the courts regarding prisoners’ rights.

True

T/ F Prison inmates now retain all the rights of free citizens except for those restrictions necessary for their orderly confinement and for public safety.

True

T/F Bounds v. Smith said that prisoners have a constitutional right to adequate law libraries or assistance from persons trained in the law.

True

T/F Procunier v. Martinez invalidated prison mail censorship regulations that permitted authorities to hold back or to censor mail to and from prisoners.

True

T/F Estelle v. Gamble was the first major prison medical treatment case decided by the Supreme Court, and was where the Court coined the phrase “deliberate indifference.”

True

T/F Deliberate indifference is where the serious medical needs of prisoners involve the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain.

True

T/F The Wolff v. McDonnell decision was significant because, for the first time, the Supreme Court acknowledged that inmates are entitled to certain due process rights—”fundamental fairness.”

True

T/F Ruffin v. Virginia included the rather famous statement that “There is no iron curtain drawn between the Constitution and the prisons of this country.”

False

T/F Unlike police organizations, it is not yet possible for corrections organizations to become accredited.

False

T/F Since 1978 the American Correctional Association (ACA) has successfully argued against corrections accreditation

False

T/F The Supreme Court’s decision in Dogg v. Connelly reinstated the hands-off doctrine on the part of the courts

False

T/F The prison director’s office normally has a legal division

True

T/F Most evaluations of direct supervision jails have been discouraging

False

T/F The two different views of what a correctional organization should be are the custodial and treatment philosophies.